Jason Isbell Quotes

Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.

We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.

It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are dissimilar.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

We go on and on about our differences. But, you know, our differences are less important than our similarities. People have a lot in common with one another, whether they see that or not.

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

We are all the same. Some people wear vests and live in Missouri, and some people wear tuxes and live in Hollywood. But we all talk about what's going on in the news. We have relationships. We make mistakes.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

An anthropologist will not excitedly report of a newly discovered tribe: 'They eat food! They breathe air! They use tools! They tell each other stories!' We humans forget how alike we are, living in a world that only reminds us of our differences.

And as journalists we look for differences - differences between countries, cultures, classes, and communities. We're very sensitized to difference, but it's much harder to write about similarities across countries, cultures, classes, and communities.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.

It makes you realise that people are the same wherever you go.

Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.

We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

Men are not tied together by papers and seals. They are led to associate by resemblances, by conformities, by sympathies.

Sports can bring people together in a way that politics cannot.

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

There's not many people that I can't relate to and can't share experiences with.